In total, the captive army sank more than 70 warships of the Qing army's naval division and captured more than 90 warships, of which the main ones were rushing ships. The warships damaged by the captives themselves www.biquge.info not counted, and more than 60 were sunk or burned. However, even so, because it was burned on its own initiative, not many soldiers died in the battle, so this naval battle can be regarded as a complete victory!

That's not all, Luo Xuan was ruthless this time, saying that Lin Fengxiang and other land soldiers were mobilized, and the staff was asked to rest for a few days, and then he led the army to capture Xiamen Island in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou.

On the third day, when Luo Xuan and others were about to lead the army to set off, there was an urgent report, but there was a large-scale rebellion in Guangzhou City and the surrounding Guangzhou Mansion and Zhaoqing Mansion, and I heard that it involved a dispute between the local guests and guests.

Luo Xuan was taken aback, he himself is a Hakka family in Jieyang, Guangdong, and he has been active in the Xijiang area all the year round, and he is very clear about the dispute between the Turks and Hakka in Guangdong.

Therefore, after discussing with Lin Fengxiang, Chen Yucheng, Liang Peiyou, etc., he immediately ordered to cancel the attack on Quanzhou Mansion and Xiamen Island, and withdraw the naval division to Nanao Island.

Then, because he was worried about the lack of troops in Guangzhou and the fear of accidents, he asked Liang Peiyou and Lin Fengxiang to guard Nanao Island and Chaozhou Mansion, and he and Chen Yucheng led the Fifth Division and the Third Division, taking advantage of the northeast wind, to rush to Guangzhou by boat.

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In the governor's yamen in Guangzhou, Feng Yunshan had a gloomy face, listening to Fan Ruzeng's report. Fan Ruzeng's original detailed work camp has been restructured and now assigned to the security department under the China Renaissance Association, and is still responsible for detailed intelligence gathering.

Recently, Fan Ruzeng had several eyeliners report that in the Heshan area, not far from Guangzhou Prefecture, thousands of natives were plotting to meet and prepare to attack the guest's village, and invited them to go with them.

Although Fan Ruzeng was a little surprised when he heard this, he didn't particularly care. During the period of managing the camp, he also had some understanding of the situation around Guangzhou Prefecture. Armed fights like this often happen between the local guests, but this time there are more people and they are closer to the city of Guangzhou.

He hurriedly asked them to pretend to agree and go to inquire about the information. Then, he sent dozens of fine works one after another, scattered them out and inquired about it, but a few days later, the information that he brought back from fine work surprised him!

It turned out to be the natives and local squires in the area of Heshan and Gaoming in Zhaoqing Prefecture, Xinhui and Xinning in Guangzhou Prefecture, plotting to gather and discuss taking advantage of the opportunity that the captive army in Guangzhou City was sent out to prepare for a riot, and they also secretly contacted the natives in the Tiandihui Party in Guangzhou City as an internal response, wanting to take Guangzhou City in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, there is not much information that has been discovered, and many specific situations, the number of organizers and participants, and the time of the riot are not clear. However, this already made Fan Ruzeng break out in a cold sweat. If you don't have those eyeliner who accidentally heard about it, and want to ask for merit and reward, you will tell yourself, but I am afraid that when these people hit Guangzhou City, I don't know yet.

This matter was not trivial, and there was no time to verify it specifically, so he hurriedly reported it to the Holy King Feng Yunshan.

Feng Yunshan has also recently been considering land reform around Guangzhou Prefecture.

Originally, he wanted to win the hearts and minds of the people and get the poor peasants and tenants, who accounted for the vast majority of the population, to support the army, so he implemented the village and town system and divided the land equally in accordance with the practice of beating local tyrants and landlords and dividing the land in later generations.

But recently, I wanted to implement it, but I found that there were layers of resistance, not to mention anything else, it was difficult to implement it in Guangzhou Prefecture alone.

In the area of Guangzhou Prefecture and Zhaoqing Prefecture, although the land is fertile and there is a lot of arable land, because of this, the population in the territory is also larger, such as Nanhai County, Guangzhou Prefecture, with a population of more than one million. In these two prefectures, since the Kangxi Dynasty, many Hakka people from eastern Guangdong and western Fujian have immigrated here, multiplied and developed, and the population has become more and more, resulting in huge land disputes. Since Jiaqing, the living environment of the Hakka people has deteriorated again, and they have begun to rent land from local natives for farming. Vicious conflicts between "Hakka land owners" and "landlords and tenants" also occur from time to time.

The local aborigines, that is, the Turen, believe that their land is occupied by the Hakka people, and the Hakka people are brave and aggressive, and they are united, and the contradictions between the two sides are already fierce.

If he forcibly distributed the land belonging to the local natives and gentry to the landless guests, it would inevitably cause more disputes between the natives and the squires and cause turmoil in the territory.

But in any case, the guests must always be allocated land, otherwise, these fierce ethnic groups will always be a hidden danger. How can we better solve the problem, so that both Turks and Turks can coexist peacefully and have land?

Just as Feng Yunshan was thinking about these questions, he was shocked when he suddenly heard Fan Ruzeng's report!

The news was shocking! He immediately realized that this was absolutely true, and that someone was fueling it! Just when the troops in Guangzhou were at their weakest, they plotted to launch a mutiny and riot. If it was really carefully investigated, the group of Heaven and Earth Society rebels in Guangzhou City also participated in the riot, then they would be extremely dangerous!

You must know that it will not happen sooner or later, but after you have sent out several reorganized divisions and brigades in Guangzhou City, and you have been out so far, you are ready to rebel, and this is to overthrow yourself in one fell swoop and occupy Guangzhou City.

Although it was winter, Feng Yunshan couldn't help but start to sweat on his forehead: What should I do? What to do?

After all, Feng Yunshan was only a small engineer in a state-owned enterprise in his previous life, and he had no experience in managing such a large territory, under a series of victories, he knew that he was a little self-righteous, especially at present, he did not have enough staff, and in the case of no one to give him ideas and remind him, it is very likely that he will make wrong decisions.

So, he hurriedly sent people to send a letter to Luo Xuan, Lin Fengxiang and others, because the waterway was fast, and ordered them to lead at least one division of troops back to defend Guangzhou City, just in case.

And the Eighth Division led by Chen Tianshi is also on the way back from the Leizhou Mansion by water.

At the same time, he ordered Zuo Zongtang, Liu Shengbang, Bai Huihuai, Tan Shaoguang, Huang Dingfeng and other cronies to be called to discuss countermeasures together.

When everyone heard what Fan Ruzeng said, they were all surprised!

Although Zuo Zongtang was in charge of the intelligence department of the General Staff of the Capture Army, he only found out about the military situation on the border between Guangzhou and Guangzhou, and he had never left the city of Guangzhou, so he did not know about the dispute between the Turks in Guangzhou and Zhaoqing.

And the rest of the people, all military generals, didn't pay attention to this aspect at all, and they didn't have any good ideas. Like Bai Huihuai, Tan Shaoguang and Huang Dingfeng, they hurriedly roared: "Holy King, let's start in advance and kill his mother!" Dare to hit the idea of Guangzhou City! ”

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but shake his head! Although his heart slowly calmed down, he still wanted to know what good ideas his subordinates had, so he looked at Zuo Zongtang, the only strategist among the people---.

Zuo Zongtang frowned and said, "Holy King, Zongtang suggests that we can't act rashly first. lest the rebels be forced to jump over the wall and start a riot in advance. ”

"The current situation is indeed very critical, and it is better outside the city of Guangzhou, even if it is tens of thousands of people, as long as the city of Guangzhou is in our hands, it is not easy for them to attack it. The biggest danger is still in the city of Guangzhou, the original Heaven and Earth Society rebels. ”

"At present, in the city, there is only the Second Division B led by Huang Dingfeng and Huang Division, and there are not many troops. Before the 3rd, 5th, and 8th Divisions returned, they pretended not to know about it, secretly inquired about the personnel in the city who were preparing for the rebellion, and made some arrangements. If it takes a long time for them to launch, they will wait for any of the 3rd Division and any of them to rush back to Canton, and then have enough troops to suppress the rebels; If they're about to start it, we'll get rid of it before we do it! ”

Zuo Zongtang was really born as a literati, and he was thoughtful, and he quickly found out the problem. It was the nearly tens of thousands of Heaven and Earth Righteous Army in Guangzhou City.

Feng Yunshan nodded and said, "What Ji Gao said is extremely true. It was the people of the Heaven and Earth Congregation in the city that the king was worried about, so he asked the Gang brothers to hurry back. Most of the people of the Heaven and Earth Congregation are local natives, and I don't know how many people will be tempted to talk about it and have bad intentions. ”

"Here's the problem! The Holy King, Zong Tang analyzed, but a small number of congregations were co-opted by the squires outside the city and participated in the rebellion. Otherwise, if tens of thousands of congregations had been co-opted, they would have already been launched. Zuo Zongtang thought for a while and judged: "Judging from the news that has been carefully investigated, those who are ready to launch a rebellion must not be ordinary natives. In addition, the Holy King recently wanted to implement the land reform policy and divide the land, so it was speculated that it must be the landlords and squires who had many fields in Guangzhou and Zhaoqing Mansion, and they were dissatisfied with the land reform policy of the Holy King, so they secretly conspired with each other to take advantage of the long-standing contradictions between the Turks and the Hakkas, ostensibly organizing people to deal with the Hakkas, but in fact they were jointly bribing the Turen Hui Party in Guangzhou and preparing to seize Guangzhou. ”

Zuo Zongtang's analysis is also Feng Yunshan's idea.

"The key now is, how to identify which members of the party have the intention of rebellion?" Feng Yunshan said with a headache: "I can't, all the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society Righteous Army will be expelled from Guangzhou City, which will cause more riots." ”

"Holy King, in fact, you don't need to screen!" Zuo Zongtang said: "These rebel rebels are just being coaxed into buying them, not that they are determined to oppose the Holy Country. We just need to act and pull their hearts back. The focus is still on those people from the local rebel organization outside the city! (To be continued.) )